Local Sports

Deep. That’s the word rookie head coach Evan McFeeters is using to define the 2013-14 Cochrane Generals.

If that large body churning up and down the ice for the Cochrane Generals in the pre-season looks vaguely familiar, you’re paying attention.

Well, at least the Calgary Flames have given us something to talk about.

The ink is barely dry on local football’s season-opening scoresheets and the Cochrane Generals are already writing their own script for the upcoming Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) season. Yes, hockey is here now, too.

The AC (Airdrie-Cochrane) Avalanche will be hard-pressed to repeat their Sutter Cup and provincial silver-medal performance from a season ago.

Dominate (verb): To control, govern or rule by superior authority or power. Look it up in the dictionary this fall and you’ll see a photo of the Cochrane Lions peewee football team beside the definition.

Row, row, row your . . . erg? Yes, erg. Springbank’s McKenzie Lukacs has rowed the gym-based rowing machine known as an ergometer, or erg, right into a varsity boat at the University of Minnesota women’s rowing program.

So much for a rebuilding year.

The Bow Valley High School Bobcats are sharpening their claws for another Rocky View Sports Association (RVSA) football season. The Bobcats, practising at the school field ahead of the Sept. 6 RVSA jamboree and the Sept.

This was the year Ben Lawrence was going to break out. He was going to be a game-changer with the Calgary Colts junior football team. But the train didn’t leave the station, the Cochrane High School alumnus instead taking a cab to hospital.